GRID-Arendal: 30 Years of Making a Difference

GRID-Arendal and partners produced a report on the state of knowledge of Deep Sea Mining, commissioned by the EU Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) in August. GRID-Arendal contributed to several assessment reports and led one on regional food security called The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Hindu Kush Himalaya . It was launched at the Global Mountain Forum in Cuzco, Peru in May. In collaboration with UNEP/Vienna, GRID-Arendal developed a series of Mountain Policy Briefs for the Mountain Partnership on why mountains matter for Energy, Climate change and Disaster Risk Reduction, Forests and Biodiversity, andWater GRID-Arendal, the Norsk Institutt for Vannforskning (NIVA), and the Institute of Marine Research launched the Norwegian Blue Forests Network in November. The network focuses on strengthening and sharing national competence on ‘blue forest’ habitats both domestically and internationally. The Blue Solutions project, a partnership between the German Development Agency (GIZ), GRID-Arendal, IUCN and UNEP, was set up. The project supports marine and coastal planners and decision makers on a range of marine management topics.

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